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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-03-02 17:42:45 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-03-02 17:42:45 +0000
commit244554ca1ad97e691ed4d06ed082e77e5f7bfba3 (patch)
tree325662af556f725c9c3142527e3e58b4151c1d8f /tests/cp/r-vs-symlink
parent22b03a611029cbb03399af27e370d775cb52c7d2 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-244554ca1ad97e691ed4d06ed082e77e5f7bfba3.tar.xz
Reflect changed semantics of cp's -r option.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/cp/r-vs-symlink')
-rwxr-xr-xtests/cp/r-vs-symlink12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tests/cp/r-vs-symlink b/tests/cp/r-vs-symlink
index 6a4e72d4a..472ee5c78 100755
--- a/tests/cp/r-vs-symlink
+++ b/tests/cp/r-vs-symlink
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
#!/bin/sh
# cp -r should not create symlinks. Fixed in fileutils-4.1.5.
+# Restored old behavior (whereby cp -r preserves symlinks) in 4.1.6,
+# though now such usage evokes a warning:
+# cp: `slink': WARNING: using -r to copy symbolic links is not portable
if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
set -x
@@ -27,13 +30,14 @@ fi
fail=0
-# This must fail.
-cp -r no-file junk 2>/dev/null && fail=1
+# This would fail in 4.1.5, not in 4.1.6.
+cp -r no-file junk 2>/dev/null || fail=1
-cp -r slink bar || fail=1
+cp -r slink bar 2>/dev/null || fail=1
set x `ls -l bar`; shift; mode=$1
case $mode in
- l*) fail=1;;
+ l*) ;;
+ *) fail=1;;
esac
(exit $fail); exit